bu dao Chang Cheng fei hao han

The final fling in Beijing

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February 15th 2008
Well here I am, back in my beloved flat in Budapest, with the morning light, grey though it is, barging through my front windows. For the sake of my fair and gentle readers I will cast my mind back across continents and timezones to recount my last adventures in and around Beijing. "Bu dao Chang Cheng fei hao han" says the scrawly handwriting of Mr Mao at the Great Wall of China - "No arrive G ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more